Line #51 Main/BTeamSequel


1	When executives have a hit on their hands, the first thing they tend to want is a sequel to cash in on the hype. But sometimes the creators don't cooperate. Maybe it would take a long time to really do a sequel justice and the execs want a quick turnaround. Maybe the creators have become [[FranchiseZombie tired of the franchise]] and want to move on to something new. A bad case of {{Sequelitis}} affected the production. Or maybe one or more key creators DiedDuringProduction.
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3	Fortunately (or unfortunately as the case may be), there's a compromise solution: hand it off to the B-team and let the original creators either take their time to make the "real" sequel or move on to whatever they would rather be working on next.
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5	This often happens in video game franchises. Since a totally new sequel with new assets and even a new engine can take many years to create, publishers will often task a different studio with making a quick-and-dirty MissionPackSequel while the original studio takes their time to make the "real" sequel. Some annualized franchises even alternate years between the A-team and B-team.
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7	In film, this often happens when the original director steps back into a producing or consulting role and is sometimes accompanied by a SoftReboot in which previous installments are still canon in BroadStrokes but there is a major tonal shift. As such, the line between this and a full ContinuityReboot can sometimes get fuzzy.
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9	This is ''de rigueur'' in comic books, where (until much later) franchises very rarely stayed in their original creator's hands; thus, only especially notable comics examples should be listed.
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11	Naturally, results vary, and many a ContestedSequel has come about due to this practice. Sometimes the B-team feels too beholden to the original, leading to cries of ItsTheSameNowItSucks. Of course, if they stray too far, fans may cry that TheyChangedItNowItSucks because OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight. Either way, it is a leading cause of the SophomoreSlump in video games and movies.
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13	[[Administrivia/TropesAreTools On the other hand]], sometimes a fresh set of hands can lead to a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel or EvenBetterSequel; if and when the original creators do return to a franchise, they might be surprised to find that fans now consider the "B-team" to be MyRealDaddy. In extreme cases, the cycle can continue with the B-team becoming the new A-team when the franchise is handed off to a ''third'' creator years or even decades down the road.
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15	Another major cause of a sequel falling into different hands is when a group runs afoul of CreativeDifferences. If one vision contrasts with another, it may become a tug-of-war for creative control until someone wins out. In other situations, [[TroubledProduction problems]] may arise that force one group to bail out, or sell off the rights to produce if they go bankrupt. Contracts can affect where these rights go and when, and if companies divide, it is possible the work will be handled by a replacement group, some of which may have divergent ideas from the original. There is also {{Sequelitis}}, the trend where works fall out of favor when new installments don't do the previous ones justice, and a lot of the time, it's because someone gets too fast and loose with the elements of a work and creates a big mess as they run out of ways to keep the magic going. The simplest fix is to [[UnderNewManagement hand it off to new blood with decent ideas to employ.]]
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17	If a new creator only finishes a work that has already been extensively worked on by a [[DiedDuringProduction tragically deceased predecessor]] rather than come up with an entirely new sequel, see PosthumousCollaboration.
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19	Compare ChangingOfTheGuard, which is when a sequel focuses on different ''characters'', and with which this sometimes overlaps.
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21	!!Example subpages:
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23	* [[BTeamSequel/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
24	* BTeamSequel/VideoGames
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27	!!Other examples:
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31	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
32	* The final season of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is produced by an entirely different team at Creator/{{MAPPA}}. As such, it has a completely different look and feel compared to the Wit Studio-produced first three seasons.
33	* The ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' anime's third season is produced by an entirely different team at Studio VOLN. As such, it has a completely different look and feel compared to the Creator/A1Pictures-produced first two seasons.
34	* Downplayed with ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'', which changed animation studios from Creator/{{Diomedea}} to Creator/StudioComet, but retained some staff from the original (although quite a few notable production roles changed hands between staff).
35	* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': Although he occasionally did some minor consulting or character design work, Creator/AkiraToriyama largely left the ''Manga/DragonBall'' franchise in the hands of various other writers and artists after the end of the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' anime; most notably, he had little involvement in SequelSeries ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', which had many fans cry out OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight. This changed with the newer SequelSeries ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', the first Toriyama-headed ''Dragon Ball'' series in almost two decades. However, the case of ''Super'' is a ZigZaggedTrope: for the anime, he provides most character designs and the plot outline to Toei, which they are able to adapt to their liking; for the manga, he's only slightly more involved, providing the same story outline and designs he gave to Toei, occasionally illustrating and writing some pages, but most of the work of illustrations, dialogue and adaptation of the outline it's mainly Toyotaro's work as he has expressed that Toriyama rarely gives him advice, something Toriyama does in an attempt to not make Toyotaro dependent on himself. Notably, ''Super'' finally showed ''GT'' being CanonDiscontinuity to the mainstream not aware of Toriyama never considering the series a canonical sequel of his work. In a subversion, Toriyama is the main writer of the movie ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', which is considered canonical to both the anime and manga versions of ''Super''.
36	* Both the anime and the manga of ''Manga/FairyTail'' have been subject to many distinct changes of production. The first anime was criticized for being somewhat OffModel from the manga's designs, featuring over-saturated colors, using magic circles for all the spells cast that weren't in the manga, and toning down a lot of the violence and {{Fanservice}}. This was the setup before the anime went on hiatus in 2013. In 2014, the anime went under new production which toned the colors back to more like what is seen in the traditional ink-colored art of the manga, removed the spell circles, made the characters accurate to their designs in the manga, and gained better reception. However, it also had some faults, coming at the cost of losing nearly all its signature songs (the rights of which belong to Creator/{{Ponycanyon}}) and replacing them with [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong shaky imitations]] by the same composer. The second anime ran until 2016, with a third anime to cap off the run of the original manga to air in October 2018. On top of all this, ''Fairy Tail'' advanced over to a new author (Atsuo Ueda) while Creator/HiroMashima stayed on as a storyboard artist, co-creating ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest'' while launching a new series, ''Manga/EdensZero''.
37	* ''Anime/FLCLProgressiveAndAlternative'' are spearheaded by new writers, but they stay firmly rooted in the spirit of the original ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' and take many cues from it.
38	* There was also a change in the animation studios and director in ''Manga/HozukisCoolheadedness'' because Wit Studio, who was in charge of Season 1, had been very busy with other shows which leaves Creator/StudioDeen to do the [=OVA=]s and Seasons 2 and 3.
39	* ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' went from Creator/JCStaff in the first season to Creator/ArmsCorporation in the second and third, with Creator/{{TNK}} co-producing the fourth.
40	* For the second season of ''Anime/PsychoPass'', there was change in the animation studios (Creator/ProductionIG to Creator/TatsunokoProduction[[labelnote:*]]though I.G would still do photography for the opening animation, which was handed by Wit Studio[[/labelnote]]) and main writer (Creator/GenUrobuchi to Tow Ubukata). The end result became a ContestedSequel as Ubukata revealed that he had to "fill in the blanks" when he was told of the movie's plot. [[Anime/PsychoPassTheMovie The movie]] had the original studio and writer back and was better received than Season 2 was.
41	* The animated series of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' was done by Bee Train but after the Rekord arc, the rest of the second season had a lot of fillers. This led to a change of animation studios from Bee Train to Production I.G. and staff with Nanase Ohkawa of Creator/{{CLAMP}} to adapt the rest of the arcs into two [=OADs=], ignoring the filler material from the TV series.
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45	* ''The Forgotten Darkness'', a story that takes place between Season 4 and Season 5 of ''Fanfic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'', is written by the series’ editor [=KingJoltik=], rather than the series’ writer [=Banshee531=]. Later, ''Dragon’s Awakening'', a story that takes place between ''Legend of Everfree'' and Season 7, is written by [=Joeyjambo122=].
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49	* All of the DirectToVideo sequels made by Creator/DisneyToonStudios fall into this, since they were Disney's animation sub-studio as opposed to their in-house animation department that makes the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon films. In some cases, such as the two ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' sequels and ''WesternAnimation/BambiII'', [[EnforcedTrope this was out of necessity]] as almost all of the original artists that worked on the films had long since passed away or retired.
50	* Every single animated feature directed by Creator/DonBluth likewise had almost all of their sequels shipped out to outside studios or departments, and Bluth had no involvement with them. ''WesternAnimation/BartokTheMagnificent'' was the lone exception since it was directed in-house at 20th Century Fox's animation department by Bluth himself to keep his animators busy between work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE''.
51	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoVsTeenTitans'', a crossover movie between ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' follows this for both shows. None of the crew members from the former such as Glen Murakami and David Slack were involved due to the team for the series dissolving after ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo''. As for the latter, while Michael Jelenic and Aaron Horvath ''are'' credited as executive producers, their role is still minimal, while no one else currently working on the series is involved.
52	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman'' had no involvement by Creator/BruceTimm or Creator/PaulDini. It was also left out from the complete ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' Blu-ray set, unlike ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero''.
53	* ''WesternAnimation/TheIceAgeAdventuresOfBuckWild'': 20th Century Animation and Creator/BardelEntertainment take over the animating reins from the defunct Creator/BlueSkyStudios.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/StraightOuttaNowhereScoobyDooMeetsCourageTheCowardlyDog'' was produced without any involvement from ''Courage'' creator Creator/JohnRDilworth. This is rather surprising considering he directed nearly every episode of the original series.
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58	* After Creator/DouglasAdams died with his ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'' series finishing on an unsatisfactory note, Creator/EoinColfer was brought in to write a final book, which was released to mixed reviews. Although Adams said in interviews that he eventually intended to write a sixth book, what few notes he left on the subject are unrelated to Colfer's ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' and were instead packaged together with a half-finished ''Dirk Gently'' manuscript and various other scraps and musings and [[PosthumousCollaboration posthumously]] released as ''The Salmon of Doubt''.
59	* The ''Literature/MillenniumSeries'' was originally supposed to be a ten-book series, but Stieg Larsson died after completing only three books. Another writer was hired to continue the series with ''The Girl in the Spider's Web''. Although Larsson reportedly left behind partial manuscripts for a fourth and fifth book, they are in the possession of his girlfriend, who does not approve of the continuation of the series by ghostwriters, and these materials are not used in ''Spider's Web''.
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63	* Creator/GeneRoddenberry, the father of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise, [[DiedDuringProduction passed away]] partway through ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'''s seven-year run. ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' was the first ''Trek'' SequelSeries to be created without any direct input from Roddenberry, being largely helmed instead by Rick Berman and Michael Piller. Rick Berman, another ''TNG'' alum, went on to produce ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' and ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.
64	* For ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', the {{prequel}} series to ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik took over as showrunners from the ''Game of Thrones'' ones, Creator/DavidBenioff and Creator/DBWeiss. Sapochnik had previously directed some episodes of ''Game of Thrones'', but he left after the first season of ''House of the Dragon''.
65	* ''Series/TheNewWKRPInCincinnati'' was originally conceived as a set of new first-run episodes to be added to the existing syndication package for [[Series/WKRPInCincinnati the original show]], and creator Hugh Wilson and most of the cast initially agreed to take part. Then after it was decided to do a whole separate series, Wilson scaled down his involvement to just writing and directing the pilot, then finally he decided against even doing that. There was still at least some connection to the original show, with writer Bill Dial (he scripted the legendary "Turkeys Away" episode) hired as showrunner. While only three of the original cast members were regulars on the new show, almost everyone else at least put in an appearance.
66	* Creator/DanSchneider had no involvement with either the ''Series/HenryDanger'' SequelSeries ''Series/DangerForce'' or the ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' [[Series/ICarly2021 revival series]] at all, though he is still credited for creating both shows. The massive controversy surrounding him[[note]]He has been accused of ephebophilia and other abusive behavior towards those who worked for him, though none of these allegations have been definitively proven.[[/note]] likely doesn't help.
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